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Bozhia most - Ponora   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000594)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:

Map of the object


Area: 227.9 hectares

Location:
District: Vratsa, Municipality: Vratsa, Locality: Chiren

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Vratsa - ul."Ekzarh Josif" 81

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-262 from 31.03.2021 2-2-594-262-2021

Record for protected zone (link):

Aims of the declaration:
1. Protection and maintenance of natural habitats types under item 2.1, habitats referred to item 2.2. species, their populations and distribution within the area to achieve and maintain their favorable conservation status in Continental biogeographical region;
2. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with code 91M0;
3. If necessary, improvement of the condition or restoration of types of natural habitats refered in item 2.1, habitats of the species refered in item 2.2 and their populations.

Objects of protection (species or habitats):
1. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 1 from Biological Diversity Act: 8310 Caves not open to the public; 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Rhinolophus euryale, Myotis myotis, Myotis blythii, Myotis capaccinii, Miniopterus schreibersii; Intervertebrates - Lucanus cervus, Cerambyx cerdo.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited conducting races with motor vehicles outside the existing roads;
2. It is prohibited movement of motorcycles, ATVs, UTVs and buggies off existing roads in non-urban areas. The prohibition does not apply to routes for the movement of the listed motor vehicles determined on the basis of a normative act, as well as in case of disasters, emergencies and for carrying out fire-fighting, emergency, control and rescue activities;
3. It is prohibited the prospecting for minerals (construction and stone materials), creating new and expanding concession areas for extraction of minerals (construction and stone materials); prohibition does not apply in cases where the date of publication of the order in the "Official Gazette" has started a procedure for granting permits for prospecting and / or exploration and / or the concession for extraction under Subsurface Resources Act (SRA) and Concessions Act, or a procedure for their coordination under Chapter Six of the Law on environmental protection and / or art. 31 of the Biological Diversity Act or an application for registration of a commercial discovery;
4. It is prohibited to change the way of permanent use, plowing, afforestation and conversion into permanent plantations of meadows, pastures and grassland, when using agricultural lands as such;
5. It is prohibited to remove landscape features (borders, vital single trees and groups of trees, traditional strips occupied by shrub and tree vegetation among lands under cultivation, protective forest belts, stone fences and hedges), when using agricultural land as such, except in cases to removal of invasive alien species of trees and shrubs;
6. It is prohibited the use of fertilizers, soil improvers, biologically active substances, nutrient substrates and plant protection products that do not meet the requirements of the Plant Protection Act;
7. It is prohibited the use of mineral fertilizers in meadows, pastures, grasslands, abandoned agricultural lands and forest areas, as well as plant protection products of professional category of use in these areas except for calamity, epiphytosis or the use of selective methods to combat invasive alien species;
8. It is prohibited to use of organic sludge from industrial and other waters and household waste for introduction into agricultural land without permission from the specialized bodies of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and when the concentration of heavy metals, metalloids and persistent organic pollutants in sludge exceeds background concentrations according to Annex № 1 of Ordinance № 3 of 2008 on the norms for permissible content of harmful substances in soils (SG, issue 71 of 2008);
9. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
10. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
11. It is prohibited to make a fire, improvements, electrification, conduct of business and sports activities in the caves and caves' entrances, as well as to break, damage, to collect or to remove of rock and cave formations, and also to divide the cave's entrance or its individual galleries in a way that prevents passing of species subject to protection under item 2.2.1;
12. It is prohibited conducting speleological research during the breeding season of bats - from March 1 to June 30;
13. It is prohibited to permanently store and deposit waste;

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. Natural Monument: Bozhite Mostove
2. Natural Monument: Ponora


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